Trying to get through this slowly. For those who have read The Critics section, what were your thoughts? Happy for Morini
>>25331600okY
>>25331600for me the novel grow throw the parts. i read it 3 times, and still that i came over a bunch of times to the part of archimboldi so good trip my friend, its a great book
>>25331600Part four is brutal, buckle up.
>>25331600Part 2 is when the book really gets into gear. Part 5 is one of the greatest things I've ever read in my life. One of my favourite books of all time. Bolano was the greatest writer of his generation. Enjoy it, anon
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>>25331600i remember nothing but love and the terror of the desert.
>>25331600I thought it was aimless but stylistically nice. The message that all women are hoes is okay but we already knew that.
>>25331600why you happy for morini? he's paralyzed and got stuck with a slut
>>25336710>>25336712get the fuck out of our bolano thread.
>>25336731>eagirly read 300 pages of murdering and raping whores>wtf don't insult women in my thread!why are leftists like this?
I thought part one was terrible. Awful unlikable characters in a relationship I didn't care about searching for some author I also didn't care about. The second part was somewhat better but mostly uninteresting. I haven't read the rest yet.
>>25336710It's not about that at all. 2666 is actually a feminist text if anything.As for Pt.1: Bolano's view of literature-academia: a bunch of cranks running around writing critical studies of novels so insignificant that they aren't even worth reproducing in the novel at all, beyond their names being supplied. Academia as a pretext for personal enrichment and sexual ventures with coeds. Scholarship in a field so arid that it's soon reduced to speculation on and a hunt for biographical details of the author--the most insignificant discourse (supposed pictures of Pynchon appear in tabloid magazines). New students using Archimboldi's novels as their own pretext for their own ideas about reality: a "new" scholarship that has even less to do with the texts than the scholarship of the Critics' era did; cycle of academic decay. What small indications we get about what the Critics are writing are totally thwarted by Part 5, where we learn about the body-text of the king of the forest (i think that's what it's called). It's a really mean-spirited part, but not misogynist.>>25336733Read, nigga, read. Your reading is literally contradicted by the text: it's pointed out that not all of them are whores, rather all of them work for maquiladoras. It isn't really "about" that, anyways; it's about the subjective experience of desensitization to meaningless violence, and maybe about how the reader's experience of the murders is altered while reading it. The dull anti-mystery unravels and loses its intrigue as the reader slowly realizes that the answer to "who is killing the women?" is "men in the aggregate". Again, not a very misogynist novel by any means. Kind of cucked IYAM.>>25335845That's a bit much. He's really just OK. Maybe if you limit the survey to Latin America, where there's a total dearth of literary sensibility
>>25336828The third part is easily the worst one in the book, but probably necessary to read. The fourth part is good and the fifth as well, those are really what you get for the price of admission.
>>25336834>2666 is actually a feminist textanything feminist is inherently misogyny-propagating
>>25336845Third part is actually when the book started to click for me. Part one and two were alright but were making me wonder what the big deal about the book was (currently halfway through part 4).
>>25336834Why are we pretending epically dunking on academia is something new thoughFrom what I regularly see half the discussion around 2666 is about how le over educated are actually dumb lol and whether is it feminist to portray the killing of women without saying killing women is bad.That's not a good look for a 900 page book
>>25336834in minimalist art, repetition is a mega-sensitizing force, not a desensitizing force. the repettion here is a growing larger and blacker horror.
>>25338292I don't know what to tell you. Latin Americans, bro. There's more to the novel than the idea-content (the actual experience of reading part 4 is more interesting than talking about "feminism", I only mentioned it because of what other people said in the thread, and part 5 has some relatively successful emotional payoff at the end)>>25338401I didn't think so when I read it. With each blithe repetition of the same autopsy report the murders became more and more abstract to me. Maybe something to do with how they're interspersed with another narrative?
>>25331600I read like 100 pages, until they beat up the driver or some shit, at that point, I just lost interest
